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keelson
Part of speech: NounA beam or timber laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel of a vessel to strengthen it. Also, kelson.
Usage examples "keelson":- Taking five feet of strong line, I tied one end under a rib next the keelson and the other around the paddle. - "Woodcraft", George W. Sears.
- Only the evenly balanced hull was left, its bottom timbers broken and its bent keelson buried in the sand. - "The Tides of Barnegat", F. Hopkinson Smith.
- The vessel was all this time rapidly breaking up; the bolts of her keelson and the stempost had started; the deck was broken in, and there was but little hope of her holding together many hours. - "Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849", William O. S. Gilly.